The Steel Guitar Forum

Country music is bigger than ever..Over 90% of the popuation loves Country...No NO (90% of the population wouldn't know what Country is or was..Proving a point,Its easy to steal something than actualy earn it or learn it..You can call crap a Rose but it doesn't change the smell..

Joe, You are right on point. What they call country music these days is a joke.

Joe, you can find more real country music in the style they call "Americana". We have a channel on the internet called just that and you can actually hear a lot of the steel guitars, fiddles, electric twanger and all the good stuff........JH in Va.

This isn't anything new.The pop music machine finds an authentic genre and turns it from cotton pickin' to cotton candy.A close parallel to many of today's "new country" chart-toppers might be Pat Boone's '50's cover of "Tutti Frutti."

It's also amusing to think a lot of these tunes could be outtakes from late-70's outfits like Boston,Heart,Foreigner,Fleetwood Mac,the Eagles,and others,who in their day were pilloried for cranking out "soulless corporate rock" and selling out the rock and roll revolution of the previous decade.

Do y'all think the Next Big Thing will be AM radio dumping the talk shows and starting to play music? Just a certain number(forty perhaps)of the most popular songs of the week? Maybe they'll have announcers to say funny things and do commercials between songs.And talk over the intros so aspiring players can't learn the lick

Much easier to destroy a current style than create a "new" genre.
Highjack and over time replace the "old!"
Glad I stocked up on what I call country music.

I always hated it when a DJ would talk over the intro or outro(with steel in it)Why do they do that! They ruined the best part of the song.
Todays "New Country" sounds somewhat like 70's Rock with the distortion on the guitars and their Marshall stacks.The only thing vaugely similar to Country are the lyrics, just my opinions...
I think it's all about the merchandizing to a particular demographic group.

I agre with MR. HAYES on this one.

About 25 years ago I said the same thing about what happened to rock music. Now I really don't care what the latest trends are.

I always wondered. What's a Craw? I'm not even sure I have one.

In Bufalo "they might say burns my rear".

Wow that was a fast edit,"Good show"..